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- 0.0 Project Descriptor and Rubric
- 0.1 Wiki Introduction
- 0.2 Monday, April 4th
- 0.3 Wednesday April 6th
- 0.4 Friday April 8th
- 1946_ Winston Churchill delivers the 'Iron Curtain' Speech
- 1947 Marshal Plan is Announced
- 1948_Berlin Blockade Begins
- 1948_Communist takeover in Czechoslovakia
- 1949_Berlin Blockade ends
- 1949_mao zedong, a communist, takes control of china
- 1949_NATO Ratified
- 1949_Soviets explode first atomic bomb
- 1950_ Federal Civil Defense Administration established
- 1950_Korean War Begins
- 1950_Senator Joseph McCarthy begins Communist witch hunt
- 1953_ Rosenberg executions
- 1953_Korean War Ends
- 1955 Warsaw Pact Formed
- 1957_Sputnik launch into orbit
- 1958_Khrushchev Demands Withdrawal of Troops From Berlin
- 1959_Cuba taken over by Fidel Castro
- 1961_Bay of Pigs Invasion
- 1961_Berlin Border Closed
- 1961_JFK requests 25% increase in military spending
- 1961_Kennedy requests 25% increase in military spending
- 1962_Cuban Missile
- 1962_U.S. Involvement in Vietnam Increases With a Surge of Troops
- 1963_Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Ratified
- 1968_Soviet troops crush Czechoslovakian revolt
- 1969_Apollo 11 lands on the moon
- 1970_President Nixon extends Vietnam War to Cambodia
- 1972_ SALT I Treaty signed
- 1973_Egypt and Syria attack Israel_Egypt requests Soviet aid
- 1973_U.S helps overthrow chile government
- 1975_North Vietnam defeats South Vietnam
- 1980_Spying in West Berlin
- 1983_President Reagan proposes Strategic Defense Initiative
- 1983_U.S. Overthrow regime in Grenada
- 1985_Iran-Contra Affair
- 1987_Regan and Gorbachev sign treaty
- 1989_ Communist governments fall in Czechoslovakia
- 1989_ Hungary becomes independent
- 1989_China Puts Down Protests for Democracy;Poland Becomes Independent
- 1989_Soviet troops withdraw from Afghanistan
- 1989_The Berlin Wall Falls
- 1990_Boris Yeltsin elected to presidency of Russia
- 1990_Lithuania becomes independent
- 1991_ End of Soviet Union
- 1991_Warsaw Pact ends